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1(A) Nealy Harvey - granddaughter - 181 Geisendorff Street.
2(B) Anna Pritchett - Federal Writer - 1200 Kentucky Avenue.
Nealy Harvey's grandmother was a slave, owned by a Mr. Stein, in Byron, Miss. She was taken from her mother and sold when a very young child. (A)
Her master and mistress Stein were very mean to her, never allowing her any news of her parents; whipping her often and very hard. Many times she would have nothing to eat. (A)
She married one of the slaves on her master's farm, then went into the house as a cook. (A)
Her mistress was very hard to please. One day something went wrong in the house; Mrs. Stein came to the kitchen to take the spite out on the cook, who was holding her new baby in her arms; the mistress started beating her, knocked the baby from its mother's arms to the floor; fracturing the baby's skull, from which injury, the baby died in a few days. (A)
After slavery was abolished, the grandmother came to Indiana, got work as a cook, and worked until she was 75 years old. (A)
Nealy has not come very far. She was very untidy, her house, and surroundings, generally unkept. (B)
Herrington, Harriet As told by Mary Elizabeth Scarber Indianapolis, Indiana (Anna Pritchett Federal Writers' Project Marion County January 24, 1938)
